Many thanks to RFE/RL’s Transmission for picking up on the diary of TV producer Peter Pomerantsev, a witty but disquieting insight into the inner workings of the television industry in Russia, including glimpses into the perils of entreprene...
The pictures normally do most of the talking for Vladimir Putin’s action man alter ego. We’ve all seen samples from Putin’s repertoire of sporting poses: judo thwacking, tiger trapping, polar bear stunning are among his sig...
The AAR consortium has reportedly won its desired British court order to block BP’s proposed joint venture with state-run company Rosneft. A spokesman from the latter has declared that the injunction ‘should not derail the deal&#...
Cisco CEO John Chambers, whose company has just allotted $1 billion in investment to Skolkovo, tells BeyondBrics that, despite the manifest ‘challenges’, he has a positive outlook on investing in Russia, comparing investment conditions...
TODAY: Medvedev announces expansion of human rights committee at tribute to Yeltsin; a dozen victims of 1999 apartment bombing remain unidentified; Domodedovo death toll rises to 36; judge in Markelov case withdraws. Ireland in diplomatic di...
Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of Boris Yeltsin, a day marked by President Medvedev unveiling a statue of the man who oversaw the transition to democracy against the resource feeding frenzy of the 1990, in his home town of Yekaterinbur...
Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of Boris Yeltsin, a day marked by President Medvedev unveiling a statue of the man who oversaw the transition to democracy against the resource feeding frenzy of the 1990, in his home town of Yekaterinbur...
Oh what mischief they get up to at TNK-BP. Today’s Wikileaks scoop from the Telegraph reveals a whole world of junta-caressing, complot-spinning, Godfather-watching madness in the saga that sent Bob Dudley out of Russia in 2008, after ...
At yesterday’s Strategy 31 rallies, stalwart democracy activist Boris Nemtsov was apparently quick to draw inspiration from the example of Egypt’s mass protests, a tsunami of popular discontent against Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rul...
At yesterday’s Strategy 31 rallies, stalwart democracy activist Boris Nemtsov was apparently quick to draw inspiration from the example of Egypt’s mass protests, a tsunami of popular discontent against Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rul...
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